Saved the Redwoods

Muir's heartfelt description of these majestic trees certainly does inspire a sense of awe in the reader, but thankfully enough, nowadays it seems like he's preaching to the choir. I don't mean that just because we're a class of environmentalists, but it also seems that Muir's message took hold of the population in general. Now the trees have become icons of our heritage, testaments to our country's natural beauty. People travel from all over the country to see them, children grow up hearing about them, and it's almost unimaginable that anyone would want to cut one down. I know from the reading that the government played a large part in making that happen, but I wonder what else played a role. It must have taken years of interdisciplinary participation to raise them to the icon status they hold today, why can't we do the same for other threatened species? Maybe someday people will think of cypress trees as a piece of living history, not something to mulch their lawns with.